Step Up – A new Help Hub
18th September 2024
New Routes will run regular Help Hub sessions at St Martin (NR3 1RW), partnering with Norfolk County Council’s People from Abroad Team, government funded migrant employability specialists Get Set UK, and Seetec.
Step Up sessions are 1,30 – 3.30pm, every other Tuesday starting from Tue 24th September 2024. Step Up is a drop-in service, so there is no need to book.
Step Up will offer asylum seekers and refugees advice on moving into employment:
- employment
- short training courses
- further or higher education
- apprenticeships
- volunteering
- work experience placements
The vision for Step Up is to provide our new arrivals with direct information, advice, guidance, and practical on the spot support towards greater access, and making personal progress.
At New Routes we have workers who cover a range of adult support interventions. The Step Up Hub will enhance our capacity to provide our participants with immediate practical support towards moving beyond their current positions. We often get high numbers of requests for a wide variety of information and/or direct support for all the areas we intend to cover during the drop-in sessions. Help with applications are a particularly common request.
To begin with Step Up will be staffed by practitioners from PFAT – People from Abroad Team, and from Get Set UK (Refugee Employment Programme).
PFAT will cover volunteering for external organisations, and preparation for employment for asylum seekers (and potentially employment for refugees).
Get Set will cover all areas and will only be supporting those with Refugee status.
We are currently working to set up a range of training courses and additional educational opportunities. These may be being delivered at New Routes / St Martin. Once these are timetabled we will be joined at Step Up by another practitioner, or a New Routes volunteer, who will focus on supporting participants to gain access to these courses and other educational opportunities.
We may also be joined, on occasions, by those wishing to recruit employees, apprentices, work placement interns.
For more information / enquiries, please contact Richard Evans, New Routes Volunteering, Learning and Progression Coordinator: pathways@newroutes.org.uk , 07883757080
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